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whip in

verb

  1. intr to perform the duties of a whipper-in to a pack of hounds
  2. tr to keep (members of a political party, etc) together
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"I probably should have had the surgery 18 months ago but I was a whip in government during historic times and I didn't have the capacity to step back from that," he said.

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"Dude, that's right where we were standing," one person exclaims in the video as flames whip in the distance.

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Sinn Féin Chief Whip in the sssembly Sinéad Ennis MLA welcomed the completion of the report on the review.

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The chief whip, in charge of party discipline, has had a big presence in Welsh politics for years, and is arguably the most senior Welsh Conservative still in office who is not the outgoing leader.

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He worked his way up to the No. 3 position by 2012, and succeeded a term-limited Cornyn as the Republican whip in 2019.

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